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At Nîmes, the two schools are fleeing a neighborhood rife with drugs

After a murder, and a warning attack, the town council has “outsourced” a school group.

School Georges-Brugnier, in Nîmes, the kindergarten will re-open on Monday, but the elementary school will remain closed until the start of the year.
School Georges-Brugnier, in Nîmes, the kindergarten will re-open on Monday, but the elementary school will remain closed until the start of the year. MiKAEL ANISSET/PHOTOPQR/LE MIDI LIBRE/MAXPPP

An area rotting with drug trafficking, where there are men wearing balaclavas and “weapons of war”. A young person killed by a firearm, on Sunday night. And then, Monday, “warning attack” triggered after an intrusion in a school. In Nîmes, the city council took a radical decision, “the first time” in this context: two schools from a disadvantaged area have been “delocalized”temporarily, in an area more quiet.

Since Thursday, the students of groupe scolaire Georges Bruguier – an elementary school and a mother – in centres, airy, a few miles away. Shuttles lead to it. “It was a case of conscience to abandon the school, because the public school must be present throughout the national territory, but we were worried for the children, and the teaching team was very shaken also”says Christophe Boissier, the director of the elementary school. On Monday, it is he who has activated the alarm “attack-intrusion”: an individual was introduced in

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